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The Dragon Who Hoarded Names
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The girl walked the glowing walls slowly. She stopped at one warm coin that hummed when she came near. She pointed. Vesper smiled. 'Brave choice. That name belonged to a queen who feared nothing.' The coin lifted off the wall and floated into the girl's chest, sinking in like a swallowed star.
The girl kept the queen's name and walked out of the cave a different person. Villagers bowed to her without knowing why. But every night she dreamed of a small silent child climbing a mountain, and she could never remember that the child had once been her.
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